I think you are getting closer to the solution, but I guess he is now using more sophisticated ways of interacting with the forum.
He wouldn't be an AI if he had to automate via script a human interface; I expect him to directly dialogue with forum software at a lower level.
Hint: you didn't read the whole thread, did you?
I read the thread but i learned about python and selenium recently so wanted to share this and applying my little coding knowledge lol.
it is not possible by selenium because I keep my sleep time 1 sec for the page to load fully. and @ddmrddrmr sends 1.2 merits per sec on average.